A Glass Eye
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'But what if we are all fictioneers? What if we all continually make up the stories of our lives? (...) Our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish, within or even against the constraints imposed by the real world...' J.M. COETZEE
A writer in her late thirties retreats to Landes in France for a while, fleeing from her own suffering after the break-up of a relationship. Little by little, she finds solace in writing about the losses in her life, about her person, and about indifference and freedom, and in sharing the doubts that arise in her creative process with a 'you' whom she imagines to be on the other side of the paper.
The glass eye, a self-referential element of the authorprotagonist and metaphor for pain and transcendence, also represents the literary concept of the work, a private notebook where fiction imitates and replaces a fragmented reality.
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- Intro
- About Miren Agur Meabe
- About Amaia Gabantxo
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Quotes
- INTRODUCTION
- THE PRICE OF MY PEARL
- SAVE ME FROM ALL EVIL
- THE VARIANTS OF PAIN
- LE RAYON VERT
- A GLASS EYE IS AN OBJECT
- ABOUT THE EARTH AND THE AIR
- DOUBLE-EDGED WEAPONS
- THE IMPORTANCE OF DREAMS
- THE GHOST
- ENUCLEATION TECHNIQUE
- SELF-PORTRAIT
- THE MONTH OF MARIGOLDS
- MAYBE
- THE SHADOW
- THE PROPERTIES OF CORAL
- WHITE WINE
- A KISS ON THE SHOULDER
- EMPTY BUT THROBBING
- OCTOBER 7TH
- DERMAL EFFECTS: THE CONCH AND THE NET
- ABOUT THE DANGEROUS AGE
- HOW A MAMMOGRAPHY CAUSED AN ALLEGORY ABOUT STREETS
- THEORY OF THE LITTLE BOX OF CHEESE WEDGES
- REASONS FOR LOSING AN EYE
- THE LETTER
- ANIMATION GASCONNE
- A GLASS EYE IS A METAPHOR TOO
- THE TEMPTATION OF PLUS
- IN THE MOUSE TRAP
- NA NGA DEF, XARIT?
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF OCULARISTICS
- THE MIRROR
- PROSTHESES IN CASES OF CONGENITAL PATHOLOGIES
- SHE WHO NEVER ABANDONED ME
- SCARS AND THE REST
- BIRDS, COLD AND BROKEN WINGS
- MONOPHTALMIA AND EVERYDAY LIFE
- TO SHARPEN, TO POLISH
- A DROP OF POISON
- TROMPE L'OEIL
- THE EYES OF MY DEAD
- THE GLASS EYE, A TOPIC
- ONE STAR
- THE GOOD THING ABOUT GOOD TIMING
- SOUVENIRS FROM LEKEITIO
- STILL LIFE
- BOLT OR AXLE
- IF, IF, IF.
- THE OCULAR PROSTHESIS, AN ARTISAN PIECE
- IN THE END
- PARTHIAN - A CARNIVAL OF VOICES 1
- PARTHIAN - A CARNIVAL OF VOICES 2
- Copyright
